January/February 2013 | The Walrus

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Feature / January/February 2013 / The Walrus True Crime

Rough Justice

January 24, 2013May 29, 2020 - by Daniel Baird

Locking up offenders does little to prevent crime or make us safer. The history behind our impulse to punish

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Photograph by Derek Shapton

Feature / January/February 2013

Critical Mass

January 10, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Katherine Ashenburg

Writer Terry Poulton found the secret to a happy, healthy life in her plus-sized body. Will the “obesity epidemic” finally force the rest of us to confront our fear of fat?

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Illustration by Selena Wong

Fiction / January/February 2013

Seal

December 31, 2012April 13, 2020 - by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

An endless sea, the horizon exquisite, with a particular blue-yellow light glancing off it

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January/February 2013 / Poetry

Souvenir

December 31, 2012June 22, 2016 - by Jeramy Dodds

Which is French for “beneath veneer,” this title or my marriage? To remember is to become a card-carrying member of the past for as long as it takes to re-elect …

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First Person / January/February 2013

Queue Tips

December 31, 2012March 5, 2020 - by Daina Lawrence

Embedded at a New Year’s Day levee in Prince Edward Island

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January/February 2013 / Society

Survivors

December 31, 2012February 25, 2022 - by Tabatha Southey

Revisiting the wedding of the love rat and the adultress

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Film / January/February 2013

Jack in the Box

December 24, 2012April 5, 2017 - by John Semley

The popular NDP leader has been dead for barely a year. Is it too soon for a biopic?

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Education / January/February 2013

Feminism 2.0

December 17, 2012September 8, 2017 - by Elizabeth Hames

A new workshop addresses the IT sector’s serious gender imbalance

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Illustration by Meredith Holigroski

January/February 2013 / Music

The Deadmau5 Trap

December 17, 2012April 13, 2020 - by Richard Poplak

How the success of electronic dance music heralds its demise

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Illustration by Benoit Tardif

January/February 2013 / Poetry

The Crossroads

December 17, 2012November 3, 2021 - by Damian Rogers

There was a string of kings in Chicago / and I knew a few of them

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